Degree

Specialties

Interests

Writers of the American Renaissance, especially Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman; 19th century reform movements

Publications

Historical introduction to A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1980) in the Princeton University Press edition of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," With the Text of the First Draft (University Press of Virginia, 1986)

Essays in The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform (University of Georgia Press, 2001)

Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's "Walden" and Other Works (Modern Language Association, 1996)

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Critical Essays on Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" (G.K. Hall, 1988)

Entries in the Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism and the Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism (Greenwood Press, 1996)

articles in various journals, including ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, The New England Quarterly, Studies in Bibliography, Studies in the American Renaissance, and the Walt Whitman Review

Distinctions

Editorial board of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University Press); Advisory Board, Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture Project; Thoreau's Complex Weave cited as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books" of 1986-87 by Choice; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, the American Antiquarian Society 1984-85; Visiting Fellow, the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 1975